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TIL 48 countries including the US and Russia have signed a convention that bans the use of weather control in times of war.

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JBgk TIL that women seeking an abortion in Texas are required to view a sonogram, as well as hear a description and the heartbeat of the fetus 24 hours before they can legally decide to have the procedure
EmX TIL ZZ Top turned down $1,000,000 to shave their beards for a Gillette commercial.
VBlO4 TIL that the first face seen on a television screen was that of "Stooky Bill"—a chalk-white ventriloquist's dummy used by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird for his experiments to transmit a televised image. A dummy was used because the lights of this first TV studio were too hot for humans to bear.
XnOX TIL that juries can legally vote “Not Guilty” if they don’t agree with the morality of the law being applied to the defendant, but many judges refuse to let the jury know about this power as they believe morality is too complex for the average person to judge.
0w6KR TIL Kansas City, Missouri was founded in 1853, and twenty years later, Kansas City, Kansas copied the name. What both have in common is the barbecue